The versatile Italian actress, singer and dancer Raffaella Carra , known for her songs like A far l’amore comincia tu, Tanti Auguri or Caliente, Caliente”, has died at the age of 78, the Italian media reported on Monday.
The news has been given that he was his partner Sergio Iapino , who has indicated in a message: “Raffaella has left us, he has left us. She has gone to a better world, where her humanity, her unmistakable laughter and her extraordinary talent will shine forever,” according to the same information.
The artist, who was born in Bologna on June 18, 1943, was an icon of music and television both in Italy and in Spain, countries in which she presented various programs, most of them on the Italian network RAI and on Spanish Television. , but also made specials in countries like Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Peru.
Iapino affirms that the television presenter also ” did not want her profound suffering to be filtered as yet another gesture of love for her audience and for all those who had had affection for her, so that her personal ordeal would not disturb her luminous memory.”
It is unknown even when and where the funeral of Raffaella Maria Roberta Pelloni will be held, which was his real name, but it was his wish that his remains rest in a simple rough wooden coffin and be cremated and kept in an urn. “In the saddest hour, always unique and inimitable, like her enthusiastic laugh. And that’s how we all want to remember her,” says Iapino.
Career
La Carra, as she is known in the entertainment world, was born on June 18, 19. At the age of eight she already dreamed of being a choreographer. She became a complete artist: singer, actress, dancer and television presenter.
For decades it has been at the top of the charts not only in Italy and Spain, but also in Latin America. From the year 76 to 82He dedicated himself to going from concert to concert throughout the region. She also conquered television and from 2016 she decided to lead a quiet life away from the spotlight, although in 2018 she released her latest album with Christmas songs.
In the 1980s, his provocations earned him the censorship of the Vatican for the dance of his theme Tuca, tuca (1971) that earned him the nickname of the navel of Italy . Her stylistic transgressions also established her as a fashion icon.
Her decision to say no to Frank Sinatra , with whom she starred in the movie Colonel Von Ryan, in Hollywood, in 1965, marked a new feminist milestone. With her songs, she entered the heart and conscience of a world that cried out for rights for women.
It has also been an inspiration for homosexuals . The Lucas theme, which he released in 1978, ended up becoming a symbol for all homosexuals who wanted to come out of the closet and did not dare. In his television activity, he also interviewed leading personalities such as Mother Teresa of Calcutta or Rafael Alberti.
La Carra revolutionized Spain in the 1970s
. The singer’s successes , among which songs such as You have to come to the south stand out; How painful; Goodbye friend; Congratulations, aunt; Hot Hot; Party; In love everything is to start; o Rumore, have been in force in Spain since the early 1970s.
The first appearance on TVEby Raffaella Roberta Pelloni, the singer’s real name, was in 1975 within the Ladies and Gentlemen program. At that time, the artist was already famous in Italy, where RAI came to censor the image of her bare navel, as reported by RTVE.
Later, she got her first television space in Spain, it was in the second half of the 70s with ‘La hora de Raffaella’, where she was accompanied by Ballet Zoom . The artist was offered to be a presenter after the “resounding success” achieved in her debut in Senoras y senore ‘.
In 1981, the Italian singer was interviewed by presenter Miguel de los Santos on the Live Portrait program, on whose plate Raffaella Carra performed several songs.
Already in the 90’s, the versatile artist simultaneously presented two programs on TVE’s La 1: Hello Raffaella and At 8 with Raffaella.
Raffaella Carra was also the protagonist of the bells of 1998 , in which she ushered in the new year together with the presenter Ramon Garcia. At that time the artist was already a consecrated star in Spain.
Fourteen years after the release of her last album, the Italian artist appeared on Spanish television to present her new album Replay .
Raffaella Carra retired from the Spanish television scene presenting on TVE the commemorative gala for the 60 years of public television for which she had worked so many times.
Last year the songs of Raffaella Carra were once again present in Spanish cinemas , since on October 2 the movie Explota Explota was released, a musical comedy set in Spain in the 70s that features the successes of the artist Italian.
